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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43040	The sectaries downfall: or, A treatise of the calling of ministers Wherein the orthodox clergie are approved to be the onely true and lawfull pastors of the Church of God. That all others besides them, (pretend what they please) for their usurping the ministry, without any lawfull call, are but thieves and robbers, and seducers of the people. By William Harvey, minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.	Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1093A; ESTC R218427	16,757	49

Those be the words of the Councill of Trent Sacerdotum * Concil Trident de Sacrament Ordin cap. 4. caterorum ordinum nec Populi nec cujusvis Secularis potestatis Magistratus Concensum sive vocationem sive aucthoritatem ita requiri ut sine ea irrita sit Ordinatio Of the Priests and of the other Orders the Consent or calling or Authority neither of the People nor any Secular power and Magistrate is to be sought after that without it the Ordination is unlawfull But on the Contrary such as are chosen and ordained by the People and Magistrate they say they are not Ministers of the Church but Thieves and Robbers And Bellarmine to maintaine the assertion of his Errour brings that example of Aaron who by Moses alone without the consent of the People was chosen to be the high Priest and likewise that of our Saviour who chose his Apostles without the suffrage or consent of the People But what of all this These examples make nothing for him because they belong to the immediate Calling and our question is concerning the Mediate or ordinary Calling For as J said before this immediate Calling must not now be expected being extraordinay and long since out of date Neither must the Anabaptists and Politicks thinke to carry it they have as little right of themselves as the other For that which belongs to all concernes all ought not to be done by the Command and authority of One but joyntly with the consent and approbation of All. Away then with the rude Multitude they by no means must meddle with the Helm sit at the Sterne least by their unskilfulness and wilfulness they runne their Vessell a shore and so miserably make shipwrack of all They are like the troubled Sea whose waters cast up mire and dirt From such violent inundations and dangerous breaking in Good Lord deliver us And you who are said to be Gods and Sons of the most high yet seeing you must dye like men and fall like one of the Princes take heed J pray that you do not appropriate that to your selves which is not proper For there is a vast difference betweene a Politicall Kingdome and an Ecclesiasticall Government You remember what the King of Kings and Lord of Lords said My Kingdome is not of this World John 18. vers 36. And this calling belongs not to power of the Magistrate but to the jurisdiction of the Kingdome of CHRIST Let them not therefore send what Labourers they please into God his harvest without approbation of the People and Ordination of the Bishop Where this Order is not observ'd but preposterously cast off and neglected The * Ministerij auctoritas prostituitur Conscientiae vulnerantur Ecclesiae sal●… turbatur Sensim ac sensim tandem destruitur Dieter Annal. Evangel in dic Sanctae Andreae authority of the Ministry is prostituted mens Consciences are wounded the safety of the Church is trouubled and by little and little is at length destroyed And so I come to my second head which was the Condition and qualification of the Ministry FIrst then the man of God must be no Ignorant person or Novice but indued if not with eminent yet at least with Competent knowledge Romes mother of Devotion Ignorance must have no roome here The Apostle St. Paul writing of a Bishop among other things hee would him Didacticon one apt to teach 1 Tim. 3.2 And after he had spoken of the Scripture how it was given by inspiration * 2 Tim. 3.16,17 of GOD and was profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for instruction in Righteousness hee thus closeth That the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto all good workes And the same Apostle in his Epistle to Titus 1 Chap. vers 9. Speaking likewise of a Bishop or Minister hath these words Holding fast the faithfull Word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound Doctrine both to exhort and to Convince the gain-sayers In the second place and it is nothing inferiour to the first as they must be able and sufficient So they must be of an Honest Civill and godly deportment They must teach not by Precept onely but by Example Sicut Minister ecclesiae doceri debet propter suae administrationis officium ita Sanctè vivere debet propter exemplum Prosper de Vita contempl Cap. 5. As a Minister of the Church saith hee ought to teach for the Office of his administration so likewise he ought to live Holy for examples sake The Apostle in the foresaid first Epistle to Tim. 3.2 would have such to be Bishops who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say Brambles or Irreprehensible See to this purpose first Chapter to Titus 2.6 and so forward where wee have at large how Ministers ought to be Qualified As a man consisteth of Soule and Body So also a Minister consisteth of Learning and Living these two must meet in a man of God if hee would be compleat But God he knoweth wee have many for all the cry of Reformation and New lights that have neither Learning nor Life And where happily or rather unhappily one hath Learning he wants life A rare thing to see them meet in one center and like the Jemini in the Zodiack to embrace each other Should the light of the Sun be once turn'd to darkness what would become of all Sublunaries For without its light and heat nothing could long subsist The Ministers of Gods word are the Light of the world so our Saviour Yee are the Light of the world And this light consisteth in Learning and Holiness of life and conversation Now where this Light is wanting the people of God are in a sad condition They are call'd Watchmen and Shepheards If they sleepe the Tower is in danger to be surprized by the Enemy and the Sheepe either scattered or devoured Seneca writing of a Governour of a Ship saith Non * est loquendum sed gubernandum He must not talke but guide and rule his Vessell In like manner the man of God must not talke but endeavour to bring the ship of mens Soules to the Haven of heaven And good reason hee hath to be carefull in regard of the many Rocks and sands in his way and violent stormes he often meets with Let me freely speake to thee thou who art Called to Preach the Gospell and to be a Minister of CHRIST What is it thou hast undertaken A Calling of that burthen and weight as would require an Atlas or Sampson to beare it Thou hast the care of Soules committed to thee and if any perish through thy negligence their blood shall bee required at thy hand What eare can heare this and not tingle Whose heart doth not either bleed or tremble to thinke on 't Heare what St. Paul saith to Timothy * Preach the Word be instant in Season out of season Reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine How wilt thou one day be